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For a few years now, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) has been pursuing a self-driving future through its Pacifica Hybrid minivans, making deals with Google and then its spin-off autonomous car venture Waymo. The automaker has now gained another ally in… Continue reading Fiat Chrysler provides bespoke minivan for self-driving startup Voyage
The US, like much of the world, is moving to keep contact between its residents to minimum as it grapples with the spread of coronavirus, and a new project taking place at the Mayo Clinic is exploring what this could mean for medical testing. In what i… Continue reading Mayo Clinic uses autonomous shuttles to collect COVID-19 test samples
Human drivers don’t really have much of a future if projects like the Sociable Cart, Motiv and Origin are anything to go by. Vehicles that drive themselves – and you – around city streets and urban sprawls are coming, and Jaguar Land Rover has jumped i… Continue reading Jaguar Land Rover shares its vision for autonomous urban mobility
The once unfathomable idea of a trailer that drives itself pushes closer and closer to reality. Joining Dethleffs and OzXcorp in working to crack that particular code, RV chassis builder AL-KO is hard at work on its own electric-driven frame. And inste… Continue reading AL-KO e-chassis tech could jumpstart the electrified RV age
UPS is looking to all kinds of new-age vehicle technologies to step up its delivery game, with electric vans, e-bikes and drones that carry smaller packages all part of the mix. It is now expressing a keen interest in autonomous heavy haulers… Continue reading UPS puts autonomous delivery trucks to the test on Arizona highway
On yet another one of those long, pointless road trips that seemed to punctuate my life starting when I got my license, I was plying the roads somewhere in eastern Pennsylvania with a friend. He told me that on long trips he’d often relieve the boredom by finding another car …read more
Before I got a license and a car, getting to and from high school was an ordeal. The hour-long bus ride was awful, as one would expect when sixty adolescents are crammed together with minimal supervision. Avoiding the realities going on around me was a constant chore, aided by frequent …read more
Continue reading Automate the Freight: When the Freight is People
In its ongoing bid to automate its pizza operations in every which way possible, Domino’s has announced a new partnership with robotics startup Nuro. The agreement will see Nuro’s self-driving pods bring some customers in Houston their pizzas without the aid of a delivery person, and is another example of how the pizza giant is exploring the ways its business can be streamlined through autonomous technologies.
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It should come as no surprise that we here at Hackaday are big boosters of autonomous systems like self-driving vehicles. That’s not to say we’re without a healthy degree of skepticism, and indeed, the whole point of the “Automate the Freight” series is that economic forces will create powerful incentives …read more
Continue reading Automate the Freight: Autonomous Delivery Hits the Mainstream
Serving as the foundation of electric vehicles launched by everyone from startups to massive global automakers, the skateboard chassis has become a staple of the auto industry. But Swedish commercial vehicle and transport brand Scania is exploring something that’s much more of a hoverboard chassis. Its NXT autonomous electric vehicle concept uses independently detachable front and rear axles as the basis of a modular vehicle system that can quickly go from dropping kids at school to dropping garbage at the dump.
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Continue Reading Scania’s hoverboard-like modular electric axles transport people by day, garbage by night
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